Scientists have revealed one of the most dramatic discoveries in
human origins with a perfectly preserved fossilised skull of an ape-like
man who lived about 1.8 million years ago.

The discovery, along with the remains of four other individuals who
lived at the same time, in the same place, has generated intense
excitement among palaeontologists who believe the finds could re-write
the early history of human evolution.

The skull and its lower
jawbone were found at a palaeontology site near the medieval town of
Dmansi in the foothills of the Caucuses in Georgia, which has become one
of the most important centres for understanding human origins outside
Africa....